Right now 3 in my family are reading or listening to audibles of “Atlas Shrugged.” Written 52 years ago, it is astonishingly timely and prescient, until you read the Founders, de Tocqueville, Hayek, etc. She followed in the footsteps of a long line of lovers of liberty, true liberty, where Americans specifically and human beings in general should exercise the freedom to be the best they can be and achieve whatever they want. The more people that read her for the first time and educate themselves about the consequences of government overreach and oppression, the better our chances of emerging from this current oppressive cycle with most of our country intact.
John Moore: your argument is simply silly. No one is advocating emulating Rand’s life or the lives of her fictional characters. We really don’t care that your geek alert goes off if you see her name or book title on a poster. There are many people whose work I admire whose lives are less than laudatory. That is a specious argument. Find me someone of great accomplishment who is not a flawed human being. We are all flawed. “…she didn’t even come close to living up to her ideals – having led a nasty and selfish personal life” is a statement of hypocrisy I would expect of a lefty, not a righty. That is beneath you.
